Successful acquisition of vocabulary is critically important to written and oral language development. Some children with specific language impairment (SLI) may need to hear a word twice as many times as their normal language peers before comprehending it (Gray, 2003).

Preschool Vocabulary Cards Nouns incorporates these principles and is based on expert professional practice.

Teach children with severe language impairments to understand and use early developing semantic relationships. This expansive program with 251 reproducible picture cards uses a controlled vocabulary and a variety of teaching methods.

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LinguiSystems

Introduction

Nouns are the building blocks of language. Children use nouns to label objects and people, make requests, express thoughts and ideas, and share experiences. By age three, children have an expressive vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words. By age six, expressive vocabulary should consist of 2,600 to 7,000 words.